Japanese Wagtail

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When to see the Japanese Wagtail

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is December, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Japanese Wagtail

The map shades 3 countries with regular records, and 4 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Taiwan, Russia, Mongolia, North Korea.

About the Japanese Wagtail

The Japanese wagtail is a species of bird in the pipit and wagtail family Motacillidae. It is native to Japan and Korea.

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Easily confused with

Mountain WagtailMotacilla claraA slender, long tailed wagtail with light bluish grey upperparts and white underparts with a narrow black breast band. Madagascar WagtailMotacilla flaviventrisThe Madagascar wagtail is a large, elegant and slender wagtail which has grey upperparts, a white breast and a yellow belly. Mekong WagtailMotacilla samveasnaeThe Mekong wagtail most closely resembles African pied wagtail M. aguimp, although two species ranges are far apart.

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